NYSNA Nurses at Health Alliance Hospital Renew Call for Workplace Violence Protections After Hospital Lockdown
MEDIA ADVISORY FOR MARCH 11 AT 1:30 P.M.
Contact: Andrea Penman-Lomeli | press@nysna.org | 347-559-3169
Kristi Barnes | press@nysna.org | 646-853-4489
NYSNA NURSES AT HEALTH ALLIANCE HOSPITAL RENEW CALL FOR WORKPLACE VIOLENCE PROTECTIONS AFTER HOSPITAL LOCKDOWN
Nurses are speaking out to demand a fair contract that ensures safe staffing, workplace safety measures, and benefits to recruit and retain nurses.
Kingston, N.Y.– On Wednesday, March 11, nurses will hold a press conference to discuss the vital need for protection from workplace violence after a violent incident led to a hospital-wide lockdown at Westchester Medical Center’s HealthAlliance Hospital in Kingston, NY. Nurses, whose contract expired on Dec. 31, have been bargaining for months and demanding a contract that ensures enforceable safe staffing standards, protections against workplace violence, and wages and benefits that help recruit and retain nurses. While workplace violence protections have been at the forefront of their demands, hospital management has refused to address their safety concerns.
WHO: New York State Nurses Association nurses
WHAT: Press Conference to Demand Safety
WHEN: Wednesday, March 11 at 1:30 p.m.
WHERE: Rear of WMC-HealthAlliance Hospital Broadway Campus, 420 Broadway Kingston, NY 12401
NYSNA nurses have been demanding safety protections as part of their call for fair contracts for months. Despite multiple recent incidents, WMC-HealthAlliance Hospital continues to refuse to take proper safety measures to protect patients, nurses, and other healthcare workers.
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The New York State Nurses Association represents more than 42,000 members in New York State. We are New York’s largest union and professional association for registered nurses. NYSNA is an affiliate of National Nurses United, AFL-CIO, the country's largest and fastest-growing union and professional association of registered nurses, with more than 225,000 members nationwide.